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A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...
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Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.
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laying judgment to the line and spoken after the same manner viz in answer to the peoples opinion that there was no divine providence to take notice of mens actions that things should continue as they were without alteration But saith God they shall know the contrary for I will not only punish them but I will doe it very exactly so that not only not all but none shall escape Josephus saith that the Romane Souldiers under Titus when he tooke Jerusalem searched the very sinks and graves and dens for men and put to death those that they found That say in their heart you have had the expression twice before in this chapter of Security And indeed it is proper to all Secure men so to say and the best of us are guilty of it oftner then we take notice of In their heart That is enough with God to provoke him and we dare not say otherwise then in our hearts for feare of provoking men 3 Death by the sword All the sinners of my people shall dye by the sword which say the evill shall not overtake nor prevent us Amos 9. 10. 4 Sudden unavoidable destruction For when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travaile upon a woman with child and they shall not escape 1 Thess 5. 3. 5 All the curses written in the booke of the Covenant And it come to passe when he heareth the words of this curse that he blesse himselfe in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walke in the imagination of my heart to adde drunkenesse to thirst The Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his Jealousy shall smoak against that man and all the curses that are written in this booke shall lie upon him and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven Deut 29. 19 20. No wonder then that the Prophet Amos should say Woe to them that are at ease in Sion Amos 6. 1. Seducers and seduced See False teachers Selfe conceited men punished 1 By their own sin deceiving them For if a man think himselfe to be something when he is nothing he deciveth himselfe Gal 6. 3. 2 By God detaining from them that which they think they have Whosoever hath not from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have Luk 8. 18. Selfe-destruction Threatned to Sinners In generall as for the prime and remote cause any sins whatsoever are mens owne snares and stumbling blocks so that you may say to a man of any of them as Moses does of serving Idols It will surely be a snare unto thee Ex 23. 33. Sinners will run themselves fast enough in and hang themselves sure enough with the Cords of their owne sins of their own accord although or rather indeed If God let them alone His own iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins Prov 5. 22. Wickednesse is the fire and they are the briars and thornes Isa 9. 18. Punishment by God is but their own way brought back again upon their own head The Scripture useth this expression for it 1 Kings 8. 32. as likewise that of eating the fruit of their own waies Pr. 1. 31. David prayed that the way of his enemies might be dark and slippery Psal 35. 6. Jeremy threatned that the way of the false Prophets should be so chap 23. 12. I make no doubt but I may say that the way of every sinner is so Which if it be there needs none to throw him downe for hee will fall soone himselfe and fall most dangerously as a man must needs doe in such waies Many are the places of Scripture which speake to this purpose especially in the Psalmes and the Proverbs You may see at your leasure Psal 64. 8. 140. 9. 141. 10 * Prov. 11. 5 6 19. ch 13. 6 14. 14. 21. 7. 29. 6. I say that every sinner will punish himselfe with his own courses when once God leaves him or gives him leave to take those courses and so to punish himselfe Now the main cause of God's leaving him in this manner is his leaving God first and refusing to hearken to the counsell of his word So that still the sinners destruction is from himselfe and he is his own greatest enemy They would none of my Councell they despised all my reproofe Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their owne devises Prov 1 30 31. If hee will not take God's Counsell he must needs take his owne and his own is never good Such as will not follow advice though it bee but man's advice we see but few of them prosper See more to this purpose in the Chapter of God's Leaving men to sin in the Title Sin Now by any sin as I told you before men do hurt theÌ„selves remotely in the end by just desert But there are some sins by which they are more immediatly their own executioners And of such sins and the manner of being punished by them mention is made in severall places of this book And therefore I will instance onely in two or three that are more noted and these are 1 An unruly tongue A fooles mouth is his destruction and his lips are the snare of his soule Prov 18. 7. 2 Anger and Envy For wrath killeth the foolish man and Envy slayeth the silly one Job 5. 2. 3 Frowardnesse The integritie of the upright shall guide them hut the perversnesse of transgressours shall destroy them Prov 11. 3. 4 Confidence and wantonnesse in prosperity The turning away of the simple shall sâ—ay them and the prosperity of fooles shall destroy them Prov 1. 32. Of these you may see more in their severall Chapters This way of punishing men by themselves is a way that God uses very much whether it be by giving them up to such sins as are most hurtfull to the parties that commit them Or by causing them to be whâ—pt by those scourges which they made themselves and intended for the backs of others Insomuch that if you see men punished this way you have very good cause to think that God hath a speciall hand in it and that he is very angry As David saith The Lord is known by the judgement which he executeth the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Ps 9. 16. Selfe-Feare See Feare and Enemies of Gods people Selling deceitfully See deceitfull dealing Sinne. I meane to give you two or three of the more remarkable texts of Scripture which speak of Sin in generall as Sin Now we find in the Scriptures First that by Sin there comes no good no not in this world every thing considered What fruit had yee then then in those things whereof yee are now ashamed Rom 6 21 and therefore sinnes are called the unfruitfull workes of darknesse Eph. Secondly that for Sin there will be certain punishment It was so
before Christ as appeares 1 By what is threatned God told Cain If thou dost not well sin lyeth at the dore Gen 4. 7. And Moses told the Reubenites and Cadites when he would have them go over Jordan with the rest of the Iâ—raelites to help them into their possessions having their own already on this side the river But if yee will not doe so behold yee have sinned against the Lord and be sure your sin will finde you out Num 32. 23. 2 By what we read of to have been inflicted Which as men knew before it was inflicted that it would be as appeares by Samuels speech to the people 1 Sam 12. 25. and Solomons prayer 1 Kings 8. 33. 35 so they acknowledged after it was inflicted that it was meerely the fruit of sin As among other places you may see in 2 Chron 30. 7. where it is said that the Messengers sent about by Hezekiah with proclamatioÌ„ for keeping of a passeover in their exhortation used these words Be yee not like to your fathers and like your brethren which trespassed against the Lord God of your fathers who therefore gave them up to desolation as yee see In the book of Judges there is seldome mention made of a victory had over the Israelites but with this preface The children of Israel did evill in the sight of the Lord c and such or such an enemy came against them c. See ch 3. 12. ch 4 3 6. 1. 10. 6. 13. 1. The same word in the Scripture is used for sin and for punishment and the same word in a different forme for to sin and to expiate sin for sin will be either expiated or punished that is câ—rtaine It is so since Christ as both the threats of the Gospel and in part experience testifie For In this world sinners are punished in the worst manner that they can be hat is with Spirituall punishments which are farre the worst and such as make way for more In speaking of these I might be very large if I would descend to Particulars But because that is a worke of a volume and not a chapter I will onely mention three more generall evils that render the condition of a sinner in this life both miserable and exceeding dangerous 1 Darkenesse 1 Joh. 2. 11. c. so that he knoweth not whither he goeth and therefore must needs fall 2 Slavery to which he is sold and hath sold himselfe wherein he continues Ro 7. 14. See Joh. 8. 34. Acts 8. 23. 3 Death Coâ— 2. 13. Perhaps he knows it not But his condition is never the better for that for of those eviâ—s that are evils indeed ignorance is alwaies an aggravation In the world to come they shall be punished with most bitter punishments Tribulation and anguish upon every soule of man that doth evill Rom. 2. 9. And that for ever These shall goe away into everlasting punishment Matth. 25. 46. This is all the wages which the servants of sinne have Rom. 6. 23. and this they are sure to have unlesse by Christ they are made free from sinne and become the servants of righteousnesse so that what ever their beginning be yet their end may be everlasting life Sinning deliberately and with delight Woe unto them that devise iniquity and worke evill upon their beds when the morning is light they practise it because it is in the power of their hands Mic. 2. 1. See Isa 5. 18. You that sinne thus take heed lest God take up a resolution against you that he will not forget you as he did against the Jewes Thus saith the Lord unto this people thus have they loved to wander they have not refrained their feet therefore the Lord doth not accept them he will now remember their iniquity and visit their sinnes Jer 14. 10. Sinning with a high hand By Sinning with a high hand I meane Sinning as the word is in our translation presumptuously â—iz when men doe not only resolve but professe to Sinne out of pride and in Contempt of authority This manner of Sinning is very frequent so that you shall see many commit Sinnes meerly because they would not seeme to be controlled and to anger and vexe those under whose command they are But what is the danger of such Sinning doubtlesse great enough For even doing ought presumptuously God threatneth with cutting off one way or other But the Soule that doth ought presumptuously whether he be borne in the land or a stranger the same reproacheth the Lord and that Soule shall be cut off from among his people Num 15. 30 See Dent 29. 19. But if they Sinne thus against the sentence of the Priests and Judges also he prescribeth to have the parties put to death And the man that will doe presumtously and will not hearken to the Priests c. even that man shall die and thou shalt put away the evill from Israel Deut 17. 12. The Israelites going presumptuously up to the hill towards Canaan when Moses had expressely forbidden them were overcome by the Amorites Deut 1 43 44. The word for presumptuously in the originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you were PROUD And so chap 17 where we translate the man that will doe presumtuously the Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that will doe in PRIDE and the Sept. translate both this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that place of Numbers above quoted which we translate presumtuously after the same manner viz 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a hand of PRIDE And indeed PRIDE hath the greatest hand in such Sinnes whereby they either despise the word of the Lord as it is said in the place before quoted Num 15. 31. or scorne to do after the command of another Sinning against Knowledge It occasions 1 The aggravation of God's anger And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel which had appeared unto him twice 1 Kings 11. 9. Which had appeared unto him twice viz in adreame by night chap 3. 5 and chap. 9. 2. And that which still makes for the aggravation of Solomonâ—s Sinne The first of those times God bestowed upon him a wise and understanding heart so that there was none like him before him neither after him should any arise like him chap. 3. 12. 2 Inexcusablenesse So that they are without excuseâ— because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God c. Rom 1. 20 21. Without excuse so we render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though in the 2. chap. v. 1 we render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inexcusable And very well for such Sinners as they cannot be excused by others so they have nothing to say for themselves Glorified him not c. Even omission against knowledge is dangerous 3 Not being pardoned Especially if it be also with a high hand professedly so that they stick not to say we see not only we heare and yet will not believe or